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Chicago is a great city for tea drinkers. With all of its independent coffee shops, Argo Tea’s 10 locations and the opulent snobbery of high tea at the Drake, it takes something pretty special to get noticed around here. Operating out of a cute (but tiny) storefront at 1160 N. State, TeaGschwendner easily stands up to the competition. Their store carries more than 300 varieties of high quality, loose-leaf tea, tea brewing paraphernalia and many attractive china tea sets.

"Tea is a fashion, coffee is a passion," wrote commentor Tim, the last time we wrote about the trendiness of tea. Tim, we hate to break it to you, but at this point, tea seems to have moved beyond trendy and into a full-fledged lifestyle choice. Says who? $5 million in sales this year at Argo Tea, for starters. Today's New York Times has a flattering profile of IT-cum-tea entrepreneurs Arsen Avakian and Simon Simonian,...

We used to be coffee fiends like the worst of them. Working, as every aspiring cool kid and poor college student has, as a barista in college, we learned to appreciate the aroma, taste, and all-nighter caffeine power of a cup of joe. By the time we found ourselves at a school in Costa Rica that offered unlimited coffee, we’d sometimes be drinking six cups a day, running around like a kid on a Mountain...